There’s no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra.

I’m learning something all the time. That’s the way I want it to go, and that’s the way I’ll go until I am no longer on this planet.

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they’re out of my life. I cross them out.

The minute you’re born, you’re getting older.

When I go, if there’s a tombstone it will say, She doesn’t give in. She doesn’t give up. And she never takes no for an answer.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor’s Studio. She’d get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn’t leave her alone. She didn’t know where to hide.

You can’t show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn’t it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

Don’t let a suitcase filled with cheese be your big fork and spoon.

I don’t give in, I don’t give up, I don’t take no for an answer.